CAMPHORA. 119. 
in malignant, putrid, and typhoid fevers. Jérg expresses 
himself thus, in his Materein. Kiinf. Heilmitt., p. 271: «In 
consequence of the quality of irritating the brain, and caus- 
ing accumulation of blood in it, Camphor has certainly 
often done great injury in typhus, when this has put on 
more the character of inflammation of the brain.” It is true, 
Camphor excites apoplectic, soporous states, but it is also known 
to have been employed for removing the same. Hunnius cites 
a case of sopor at its highest pitch, cured by injections of Cam- 
phor into the median veins (Hufeland’s Journal, vol. xxii. st. 4, 
p. 44). But G. A. Richter observes (1. c., p. 380): “ Camphor 
must, generally speaking, be employed with some caution in apo- 
plexy, as it operates almost narcotically in large doses.” Here 
we have it distinctly stated that in large doses it produces, as it 
were, apoplexy ; but when employed with caution, that is, in 
small doses, it brings about cure! Camphor is an acknowledged 
chief temedy in mania and melancholy; yet it has avowedly 
in many instances excited or aggravated both those forms of 
disease. Simmons effected the cure of a maniac with Cam- 
phor, after an aggravation of the state had been first in- 
duced by it. Cullen (Mat. Med., trans. by Hahnemann, 
Leipsic, 1790, vol. ii. p. 338) relates a case of madness (not of 
an asthenic kind) in which the cure was brought about by 
Camphor; and Hahnemann remarks thereupon that he had 
Witnessed two similar cases, but that, in melancholic madness 
combined with general debility and sluggishness of the 
whole body, he had in several cases obtained no help 
from Camphor. “ Adyersus maniam fere specifici titulum 
obtinuit Camphora”—* affirmat tamen Kinnear quod saltem 
frigidis corporibus conveniat, calidis contra et plethoricis 
noceat et morbum omnino augeat” (R. A. Vogel, Hist. Mat. 
Med., edit. nova, Francof. et Lips., 1764, p. 312). We 
read in Stahl (1. c., p. 79): “Among those who suffer 
from phrenitis, and rave, Camphor has been given with 
benefit.” But Quarin says : “Sunt qui magnas doses non ferunt — 
